Covenant Church

The problem of toenails, cannibalism, and overly tall people: Zack draws on the wisdom of the early Church to help us better appreciate our hope for bodily resurrection.

Naps, vacation, boredom, and decadence; a social Kingdom; embracing the drab stone dark cathedral: Zack explains why "rest" is one of our greatest hopes.

Zack makes the case that our ultimate hope is not restoration of life before "the Fall" but, instead, much, much more.

Conflicting Scriptures as a gift; the fundamental gesture of the Scripture; what, exactly, is cursed: Zack discusses whether "the Fall" is one cause of our suffering in this world and considers why it is important to try to understand our suffering.

The problem with autographs; boasting in suffering; eating too much honey: Zack evaluates the logic by which suffering results from disobedience.

Contrasting Jonah and Paul; the "medicine for immorality"; singing U2 in college: Zack makes some additional observations on Acts 27.

A centurion's philanthropy; Aristarchus; the greatest love: Zack makes some observations about Acts 27.

80-hour-weeks, science textbooks, and getting out of bed: Zack asks whether all Christians have a calling.

(Again) our precedented, polarized age; we don't get to choose our team; limits, disequilibrium, God-centered: Zack considers how Paul's message to Felix (justice, self-control, and the coming judgment) might be gospel for us.

Why does Paul curse the high priest? Why does he deflect defending himself? Zack concludes that it -- speech, life -- is all about His presence.

"Uncreated light"; Charles Finney and Bill W.; children hiding in a bathtub: Zack reflects on what it means that God is light.

The "morality-litigation complex"; the Golden-Mouthed preacher; learning from martyrs: Zack reflects on suffering like -- no, with -- Jesus.

Opening your home for Christmas dinner, a prayer group meeting daily, a million small Yeses: Zack reflects on when community is sufficiently formative.

Getting Covid on vacation: Zack reflects on whether "looking at the positives" is biblical.

A friend runs with a backpack (with surprising results); Charles Barkley gets it wrong; Seneca gets it right: Zack wrestles with Paul's repeated exhortation to imitate him.

What is a sermon?; the Law of Conservation of Mass; the many raisings from the dead in Scripture: Zack meditates upon what it means that God is a God of Life.

The basis of the global economy; modern-day gladiators?; an 18th anniversary: Zack explores the way that economic practices in Acts often elicit extreme persecution and struggles with potential modern-day analogies.

Lapping water like dogs; having your son order a burrito for you; not joining a monastery: Zack offers suggestions for why Paul moved in next door to the synagogue in Corinth.

The best verse in "Amazing Grace"; the exodus of Philistines and Arameans?; courage in a small Albanian village: Zack talks about how Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17 challenges us to speak the gospel in new ways and to hear the gospel in unexpected places.

Our precedented times; agreements between the Right and Left; the psychology of despair: Zack finds a way toward hope in Philippians 4.

The humble beginnings of a great church: Zack sees the story of the church at Philippi as a story of hope for Covenant Church.

Zack considers 2.5 ways that the Holy Spirits speaks in Acts 13 (and today): through other people, through circumstances, through not speaking but allowing us freedom to act and be corrected. For supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons.

Why is Peter delivered and James killed? Why shouldn't we preach Acts simply as a series of miracles? What is a miracle? Zack wrestles with Acts 12. For supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons.

Zack explains how we learn from Acts 11 that grace-as-gift necessarily abounds. For supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons

Voices, visions, trances, angels, and more: Zack examines the ways that the Holy Spirit speaks in Acts 10--and considers what this means for us. For supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons